Google to Organize World's Courtship Information with Google Romance

[civman2000]

http://www.google.com/romance/press.html

Google to Organize World's Courtship Information with Google Romance

Service to offer psychographic matchmaking plus free “contextual dating” option

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google Romance™, a new product that offers users both a psychographic matchmaking service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of their evening.

"Our mission, as you might have heard, is to organize the world's information," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's senior vice president, product management. "And let's face it: in what area of life is the world's information more disorganized than romance? We thought we could use our search technology to help you find that special someone, then send you on a date and use contextual ads to help you, ya know - close the deal."

Google Romance users who find one another via Soulmate Search™ may then select the Contextual Dating option, which offers an all-expenses-paid romantic evening in exchange for viewing contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of the users' date (learn more). "Our internal projections say Contextual Dating is going to be unbelievably huge, just a total cash cow," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt in prepared remarks placed into the notes section of an executive PowerPoint presentation and intended solely for internal use but promptly leaked onto the web and then roundly mocked on and . The product, a beta release currently residing on Google Labs, can be experimented with at www.google.com/romance/.

I think this is a nice idea. Plus, it'll give google a ton of money, which they can spend on more important things.

[Solver]

April's Fools

Nice idea anyway .

[Provost Harrison]

[Ted Striker]

Even though it's April Fool's, I'm surprised Google hasn't done it yet

Wait a minute, they have released past features like Gmail on April Fool's so it is possible they aren't joking this time

You never know

But this one looks like an actual joke I think

[Lorizael]

April Fool's? Sigh. Then I guess I am doomed to a loveless life.

[Lorizael]

Thanks OTBOT. Make me feel worse.

[Solver]

"My name is pain" for the above

[Ted Striker]

OTBOT is a comedian!

[Vesayen]

I really can't tell if this is real or not.

[reismark]

OK, it's obvious this is a prank (if you look at the tour, you'll see why) but it's also possible that an altered form of this could become a legitimate product.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Lorizael
April Fool's? Sigh. Then I guess I am doomed to a loveless life.

Yea, I was totally gonna sign up for this...

[Jon Miller]

I ahve thought about signing up for an internet dating thing again

I did several years ago, and had nothing come of it... but I could try again (I haven't had a girl who was 'promising' for over a year now)

I would go with google over some other sites..

JM

[Dis]

If it was free, I would have signed up for it.

I will never do those sites that require you to pay money. There are other places in Nevada I could go to if I wanted to pay for love. . Okay it's not really love, but you know.